Jonathan Anomaly

Bioethicist and self-described defender of "liberal eugenics," named in a 2024 Guardian/Hope Not Hate undercover investigation as an in-house academic advisor to Heliospect Genomics.

Matters to this vault as the philosophical voice behind the AI-driven embryo-selection practice this session's capture surfaced: he is the academic making the affirmative ethical case for a service — ranking IVF embryos by predicted IQ — that pronatalism's own advocates (see Rachel Lu) are publicly trying to distance the movement's vocabulary from.

References

• claim-heliospect-genomics-used-ai-polygenic-scoring-to-rank-embryos-by-iq
• claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel
• claim-independent-journalism-2025-2026-confirms-herasight-continues-iq-embryo-scoring
• claim-herasight-cogpgt-2025-reports-new-iq-prediction-figures-distinct-from-heliospect

Updates

• 2026-09-08: Now appears undisguised on Herasight's public team page (the successor brand to Heliospect Genomics), alongside a "Join us" button, and as a co-author on the peer-reviewed CogPGT validation paper that Herasight's 2025 announcement links to (the announcement itself carries no byline) — he did not retreat from the practice after 2024's coverage; he kept working on it publicly under the same colleagues, including CEO Michael Christensen. (claim-heliospect-website-redirects-to-herasight-shared-personnel)
• 2026-09-08: The term "liberal eugenics" he uses to defend Heliospect is not his own coinage — it belongs to philosopher Nicholas Agar (1998/2004), and traces further back to Robert Nozick's 1974 "genetic supermarket." Anomaly is applying a 26–28-year-old academic term to a present-day company, not originating the position himself. (claim-nozick-genetic-supermarket-anticipates-agar-liberal-eugenics-anomaly-heliospect-lineage)
• 2026-09-24 (propagation-repair): the 2026-09-08 entry above was corrected in place. Was: he appears "as a co-author on Herasight's 2025 CogPGT technical announcement." Now: he is a co-author on the peer-reviewed CogPGT validation paper the announcement links to — Interpreting Polygenic Prediction of Cognitive Ability, DOI 10.65550/001c.158459, Intelligence & Cognitive Abilities, 2026-04-06, authored by Wolfram, Moore, Li, Anomaly, Davidson, Christensen — while the Substack announcement itself carries no individual byline and names none of them. Basis: the 2026-09-09 cross-model audit (claude-opus-5 auditing claude-sonnet-5) of claim-herasight-cogpgt-2025-reports-new-iq-prediction-figures-distinct-from-heliospect, which moved the shared-personnel attribution from the announcement to the paper. Unaffected: his presence on Herasight's public team page, the continuity with Michael Christensen and the 2024 colleagues, and everything in the second entry above.